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The Northwest Power and Conservation Council has published its draft 2021 Northwest Power Plan, which will guide the development of the Bonneville Power Administration and the regional power grid through 2027.
Renewable Electricity Is Coming on Strong BC and all of Cascadia could move off fossil fuels, say new models. Moving fast is key, say experts. Peter Fairley is an award-winning journalist based in Victoria and San Francisco, whose writing has appeared in Scientific American, NewScientist, Hakai Magazine, Technology Review, the Atlantic, Nature and elsewhere. SHARES Daimler Trucks North America is signing up buyers for its eCascadia battery-powered semi truck, to be built next year at the Freightliner plant in Redmond, WA. The eCascadia will have a 400-km range. Co...
Home » Newsroom » Why Renewable Electricity Powers Decarbonization — and Pays Off Plugging in more stuff can slash Cascadia’s climate-warming emissions at modest cost. But that means moving much faster. Amid the 1970s Arab oil embargo, a gasoline company’s TV ads showed an aging wooden windmill. As the wind died, it slowed to stillness. The ad asked: “But what do you do when the wind stops?” For the next several decades fossil fuel providers continued to denigrate renewable energy. Big power utilities piled on with claims that fluctuating solar and wind power could black out the g...